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The division continued to fight as part of the front throughout June and July. Between 6 June and 8 July, 21st Panzer reported the loss of 54 Panzer IVs, with 17 Panzer IVs arriving as replacements. On 3 July a German report stated the following number of enemy tanks destroyed by 21st Panzer according to weapon used: Pz: 37, Sturmgeschütz: 15 ...
Staff Company, 2nd Panzer Brigade, (8x M577, 8x Luchs) 21st Panzer Battalion, (28x Leopard 2A2, 11x Marder, 12x M113) 22nd Panzergrenadier Battalion, (35x Marder, 6x Panzermörser, 12x M113) 23rd Panzer Battalion, (41x Leopard 2A2, 12x M113) 24th Panzer Battalion, (41x Leopard 2A2, 12x M113) 25th Panzer Artillery Battalion, (18x M109A3G)
North cardinal direction (Operation Arctic Fox) 1941–1945: 15,000 (1943) [1] 7th: Prinz Eugen: Germans, ethnic Germans from Banat, Croatia, Hungary, and Romania, small numbers of ethnic Serbs, Croats and Albanians after 1943: Prince Eugene of Savoy: 1941–1945: 18,000 (1943) [citation needed] 8th: Florian Geyer: Germans: Florian Geyer: 1941 ...
The 21st Panzer Division, with its formidable inventory of some 127 Panzer IV tanks, [63] was intended for use as a rapid response force. However, on the morning of June 6, its commander Generalmajor Edgar Feuchtinger was in Paris, and Rommel was in Germany. The division was unable to finalize orders and preparations for a counterattack until ...
The 21st Panzer Division was a new formation based on the former Afrika Korps unit, which had been destroyed in North Africa. [26] Although equipped with an assortment of older tanks and other armoured vehicles, the division's officers were veterans and 2,000 men from the old division filled its ranks. [ 8 ]
Staff-only; staff formed on 15 February 1942 from the staff of Panzer Regiment 18. Subordinate to 18th Panzer Division. Dissolved on 4 January 1943. [25]: 94 21. Panzer-Brigade: 21st Armored Brigade Staff formed on 25 June 1943 near Orel on the Eastern Front from personnel of Panzer Regiment 21.
During the Battle of the Bulge, the US First and Ninth Armies on the north face of the bulge came under the control of the 21st Army Group. The US Ninth Army remained part of 21st Army Group during the drive to the Rhine (Operations Veritable and Grenade), the Rhine crossings (Operation Plunder) and the battle of the Ruhr Pocket until April 1945.
8th Panzer Regiment (2 bns) 1st Battalion, 115th Infantry Regiment; 2nd Machine Gun Battalion; 3rd Engineers Battalion; 33rd Recon Battalion; 33rd Anti-tank Battalion; 33rd Artillery Regiment; 21st Panzer Division (Generalmajor Johann von Ravenstein until 29 November (prisoner of war), then Generalmajor Karl Böttcher) 5th Panzer Regiment (2 bns)